Governor Tim Walz’ Strange Connections and Comments

Recently, Tucker Carlson interviewed Liz Collin a reporter who has been working in Minnesota for 20 years and currently is with Alpha News.  Liz has concerns about Governor Tim Walz’ character because of the lies he has told and his strange connection to China.  Walz was never a Command Sergeant Major as he claimed.  Instead, he abandoned his troops as they were being deployed to Iraq and ran for congress.  This was also reported by Katherine Fung, Senior Writer, at Newsweek on August 7, 2024, who wrote that the governor did not retire as Command Sergeant Major in 2005, as stated on the Minnesota official website, but as Master Sergeant because he did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy.  Two retired senior officials with the Minnesota National Guard wrote an open letter criticizing Walz for retiring shortly before his battalion was to be deployed to active duty in Iraq.

Tim Walz’ ties to China are troubling.  He made more than 30 trips to The People’s Republic of China (PRC).  He went there for a year upon graduating from college to teach English. In 1993, according to the Star-Herald, as a teacher in Nebraska, Mr. Walz organized a trip to the PRC with Alliance High School students, where costs were paid by the Chinese government. In 1994, Mr. Walz set up a private company named “Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.,” which coordinated annual student trips to the PRC until 2003 and was led by Mr. Walz himself. The corporation was dissolved four days after he took congressional office in 2007. Since his first trip to China, Governor Walz has visited the PRC an estimated 30 times. Collin spoke to some of the students that took a trip to China with Walz, and they said he would collect the little red Mao Zedong books while he was there and he seemed to adore Communism.  Mao helped build the Chinese Red Army and in 1935 he became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.  Mao eventually defeated the Nationalist government in 1949, which withdrew to Taiwan.  Mao led the country until his death in 1976 but is known for policies that resulted in tens of millions of deaths from political persecution, prison labor, executions, and famine.  In 1989, there was an uprising of peaceful student protests in Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, which lasted from April 15 to June 4,  The protestors wanted democracy and freedom of the press but the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of June 3 and massacred several hundred protestors and wounded thousands more.

Walz was married exactly 5 years after Tiananmen Square and he said he picked that date so he would remember it.  The Walzes went to China on their honeymoon. 

Two people that served with Tim Walz in a National Guard unit in the early 1990s,  suspected that he took the Standard Operating Procedure manual (SOP) for the Howitzer Army tank.  The SOP went missing at that time while Walz was taking trips to China and they reported this to the FBI.   A couple of years later, the Chinese began producing almost a carbon copy of this military tank.

The largest newspaper in Minnesota has not reported on these stories. It may be because the Minnesota Star Tribune is run by Steve Grove, the former commissioner of the Department of Employment and Economic Development for Tim Walz, having started there on April 17, 2023.

This summer, it was revealed that Vance Boelter, the 57-year-old suspect in the shooting of Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, wrote a letter addressed to the FBI claiming that Gov. Tim Walz had told him to kill U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could run for her seat and he blamed Walz for the murderous rampage.  On June 14, tragically, Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were allegedly shot and killed by Boelter.  That same night, Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman was shot nine times and his wife, Yvette was shot eight times and both are recovering and crediting their daughter for saving their lives. 

Boelter was appointed to the Minnesota Workforce Development Board in 2016 by former Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton.  Walz reappointed him in 2019 for a second term which ended in January 2023.  Boelter was impersonating law enforcement when he entered both lawmakers’ homes and security camera footage show him wearing a creepy latex mask of an old man’s face.  A “hit list” found in Boelter’s car and obtained by Alpha News included the names of dozens of Democratic politicians and abortion facilities.  Gov. Walz, who recently referred to ICE agents as President Donald Trump’s “Gestapo” and urged Democrats to “bully the s-t out of” Trump – has acknowledged the need for a more civil discourse.

Tim Walz continues to spark outrage with his comments and was widely criticized recently for his speech on September 1, 2025, at a Minnesota pro-labor union event when he alluded to a rumor that had been circulating on social media that President Trump had died.  ABC7 News reported the following:

Tim Walz said, “I will say this, the last few days, you woke up thinking there might be news.” while mimicking Trump's hand gestures. "Just saying, just saying.  There will be news sometime.  Just so you know there will be news." 

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), who serves as the House Majority Whip, shared his disappointment with Walz's insinuations of the rumors dominating the internet that Trump had passed away. Emmer wrote on X with the video of Walz' comments embedded in the post. "@TimWalz, mocking President Trump’s health is a new low, even for you," "Wishing ill on others doesn’t make you a leader—it makes you small. Minnesotans deserve better."